Details
Catalog #: LMO-078
Tracklist:
2. Do You Understand (What Has Happened To You)
3. My Girl
4. Jonathan
5. Thinking Of You
6. A Modern Lay
7. At The Moonbase
8. Fell In Love
9. Song For Oscar's
10. Van Morrison
11. Notes From a Brief Engagement (at the Boot & Saddle)
Pressing Info:
released December 24, 2020
Produced by Jake Ewald at The Metal Shop in Philadelphia, PA and at home
June - October 2020
Mixed by Matt Schimelfenig at The Bunk in Tannersville, PA
Mastered by Ian Farmer at The Metal Shop
All music written and performed by Jake Ewald except where noted
Wil Schade - Saxophone on 1, 5-8, 10
Lucy Stone - Vocals on 1, 2, 6, 7
Zack Robbins - Additional synthesizers on 1, 4
Jessica Flynn - Vocals on 9
Julie Sponsler - Spiritual guidance
Layout and design by Jake Ewald
Photography by J. Flynn
Overview
At the Moonbase, the fourth full-length album from Slaughter Beach, Dog, is a return to form for Philadelphia bandleader Jake Ewald. Written and recorded alone at home and at The Metal Shop, Ewald’s East Kensington recording studio, the album tracks an exercise in solitary production not unlike Slaughter Beach, Dog’s 2016 debut Welcome or 2017’s Motorcycle.JPG. On the heels of 2019’s Safe and Also No Fear, Ewald’s latest offering brings expanded arrangements and sharpened storytelling as he taps into salad days over slacker rock (“Do You Understand”), the dark grooves of seedy city life (“Song for Oscars”), and even a barroom-piano-driven “escapade through the great American bedroom” (“A Modern Lay”).
